Scratching is often pleasurable, which suggests that, in order to have evolved, this behavior must provide some kind of ...

Beetroot salad contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus was the likely source of illness onboard two flights from Nepal. The ...

Nearly 75% of swab samples taken from fitness equipment tested positive for Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria that ...

BETHESDA, Md. — (NMRC)’s Clinical Trials Center (CTC) is seeking volunteers to participate in a phase 1 clinical trial for a vaccine aimed at reducing frequency ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that allow some strains to evade the immune system and become resistant to ...

The most detailed study to date on the mechanisms by which a common type of bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, adapts to living on the human ... and treatment of disease. Understanding how bacteria ...

State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Centre for Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, ...

S. aureus cell wall-associated virulence factors include capsular polysaccharides (CPs), staphyloxanthin (carotenoid pigment), and a group of proteins known as microbial surface components ...

The new year is certain to bring the spread of infectious diseases – both new and old. And several factors make 2025 ripe for transmission in the U.S., including declining childhood vaccination ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent ...